GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which uses a 12 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 672153 (256%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is much (more or less 106%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 225264 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be a lot (approximately 225%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 105872 (225%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.